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Dr Daniel M. Knight is a Reader in the Department of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies at the University of St Andrews. He has held previous positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Durham University, and maintains a close collaboration with the British School at Athens. Currently, he serves as Principal Investigator on two major research projects: the HERA-CHANSE funded Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis (2025-2028) and the Leverhulme Trust project Times of Polycrisis (2025-2029).
Dr Knight's research interests focus on philosophical, historical, and economic anthropology with particular emphasis on time/temporality and crisis, primarily in the context of Thessaly, Greece. His work combines theoretical frameworks toward a 'philosophy of humanity' with detailed ethnographic, archival, and popular culture analysis. His key research areas include Philosophical Anthropology, History and Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Anthropology of the Future, Anthropology of Crisis, Time and Temporality, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Modern Greece, European (especially Balkan and Mediterranean) Anthropology, and Michel Serres Studies.
His publication record demonstrates a consistent focus on crisis temporality and future orientations. His books trace an evolving theoretical trajectory from cultural proximity in economic crisis (2015), to orientations to the future (2019), temporal vertigo (2021), and most recently, green knowledge production (2025). His work shows increasing engagement with polycrisis frameworks, renewable energy transitions, and philosophical engagements with Michel Serres. The publications reveal a deepening theoretical sophistication while maintaining empirical grounding in Greek contexts.
Dr Knight has supervised numerous PhD students including Daniel Davies, Cameron Dickie, Connor Eckersall, Evgeniya Pakhomova, Hector Trujillo, and Matteo Valenzasca. His research has been generously funded by major organizations including HERA-CHANSE, the ESRC, EPSRC, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, and National Bank of Greece. He has delivered keynote addresses to prestigious national bodies including the Israeli Anthropological Association, the Italian Society for Cultural Anthropology, and the Danish Association of Anthropologists.
He serves as co-editor of the History and Anthropology journal and convenes the ASA's 'Anthropology of Time Network.' In 2024, he held a visiting fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Comparative Thought and Literature. His work contributes significantly to understanding how people navigate temporal disorientation during periods of social upheaval.
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